%0 Journal Article
%T TREATEMNET OF CANCER BY MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS
%A B. Aisya*
%J International Journal of Pharmacy and Technology
%D 2010
%I IJPT
%X A term combining the words ˇ°nutritionˇ± and ˇ°pharmaceutical,ˇ± is a food or food product that provides health and medical benefits, including the prevention and treatment of diseases. They have shownactivities like antioxidant, effect on cholesterol, anti-hormone activity and in treatment of cancer.Different species like tramates versicolor, a cancer drug called polysaccharide-k, which counter-act the immune system depressing action of common chemotherapeutic drug. Grifola frondosa has anti-cancer activity. Agaricus subrufescens shows similar effect. Agaricus bisporus shows inhibition of breastcancer development. Similarly other species like Lentinula edodes, Hericum erinaceus Flammulina velutipes shows effect.
%K Neutraceuticals
%K Mushroom
%K Cancer
%K Anti-oxidant
%K Anti-hormonal
%K Hericium
%K Angiogenesis
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